Kieran Hodgson Writer / Performer
Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Kieran is an acclaimed actor, writer and comedian.
Kieran Hodgson has had four hugely successful shows at the fringe, three of which resulted in prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show Award Nominations for Lance, Maestro and ’75. Maestro also landed Kieran a nomination for the Times Breakthrough Award at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2017. Kieran’s shows have sold out theatres and comedy venues across the UK.
Outside of the live circuit, Kieran has played series regular Gordon in two series of the smash hit BBC2 sitcom Two Doors Down alongside Arabella Weir, Doon Mackichan, Alex Norton, Elaine C Smith and Jonathan Watson.
Kieran filmed the role of Dr Moorhouse in the forthcoming Victorian crime drama Miss Scarlet & The Duke this summer, which will air on UKTV’s Alibi channel in the UK and PBS in the US.
Other recent film and television roles include: BBC3 / BBC One’s Bafta-nominated Pls Like series 2, as a regular in two series of BBC3's hit Famalam, Channel Four’s pilot The Mr Swallow Show starring Nick Mohammed, Dave's Unspun With Matt Forde, Netflix's Lovesick, and as Malcolm McLaren in Sky Arts' Urban Myths: The Sex Pistols vs Bill Grundy.
Kieran’s Channel Four Blap, God’s Own County, which he wrote and also starred in alongside Monica Dolan and Jim Howick, was released in summer 2018. It was developed with Jonny Sweet and Simon Bird’s production company Guilty Party Pictures and produced by TV Burp’s Spencer Millman and is being developed further for Channel Four. Watch it here.
He also appeared in BBC 2’s single drama We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story alongside John Sessions and Sally Phillips, BBC 2’s Ben Elton–penned Shakespearean sitcom Upstart Crow alongside David Mitchell, Harry Enfield and Spencer Jones, as well as Sky’s Mr Swallow’s Valentine with Nick Mohammed and the box office smash Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
His many radio credits include BBC Radio 4’s The School For Scandal alongside Roger Allam, Hugh Bonneville and Susannah Fielding and Pliny the Younger in Radio 4's How To Survive The Roman Empire by Pliny And Me. Kieran also wrote and performed his BBC Radio 4 series Kieran Hodgson's Earworms inspired by Maestro and recorded a special live version of Lance.
Kieran is also a hugely in-demand writer and performer who currently has his own scripted projects
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] in development with Objective Fiction, Guilty Party Pictures / C4 and Merman Films / C4. He is also working with Fox Searchlight on a feature project.
Reviews for ’75:
‘The single most brilliant thing anyone's said about Brexit' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Londonist
‘It’s breathless, it’s bonkers and it’s often high-brow…’ ✭✭✭✭✭ The Wee Review
‘There are quite a few shows about Brexit at the Fringe this year… But I highly doubt any are quite as frenetically witty and refreshingly even-handed as ‘75’ ✭✭✭✭✭ Theatre Weekly
‘Everything’s unusual – and ravishingly entertaining, informative and full of insight and laughs – in the show…’ ✭✭✭✭ The Times
‘There’s a delicious perfectionism here to the writing, structure and delivery that puts most other shows to shame’ ✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph
‘Another sterling display of comic prowess from Kieran Hodgson’ ✭✭✭✭ The List
‘It’s a show about Brexit that manages to be inclusive, clever and funny at the same time’ ✭✭✭✭ Short Com
‘Hodgson’s considerable skills as a vocal caricaturist are part of the pleasure here; so too the frequency and quality of the jokes…' ✭✭✭✭ The Guardian
‘This is rich, thoughtful but belly-laugh stuff from an act whose showy virtuosity as both a character and confessional comic is backed by some outstanding writing’ ✭✭✭✭ The Scotsman
'It's the mother of history lessons, both good to know and also holds your interest in increasingly inventive ways.' ✭✭✭✭ The Skinny
'One of the best researched and most thoughtful takes on the topic you are likely to see - insightful as well as genuinely funny.' ✭✭✭✭ What's On Stage
Reviews for MAESTRO:
'This could well be the show of the Fringe.' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph
'Simultaneously one of the funniest and most heart-warming acts at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Kieran Hodgson is not to be missed.' ✭✭✭✭✭ Broadway Baby
'This is comedy that feels in some way transcendental. You leave Maestro feeling uplifted and elated.' ✭✭✭✭✭ TV BOMB
Reviews for LANCE:
‘An absolute gem...a delight to watch' ✭✭✭✭✭ The Guardian
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] 'Kieran Hodgson has here served up a one-man effort that lets his comedic talents roar as never before.' ✭✭✭✭ The Telegraph
'A triumph of a show...with plenty of genuinely laugh-out-loud moments.' ✭✭✭✭1/2 Chortle
Agents
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Roles
Stage
Production Character Director Company FRENCH EXCHANGE Berks Nest
'75 Berks Nest
MAESTRO Various Berk's Nest
MR SWALLOW - HOUDINI Edinburgh Fringe 2016
LANCE Various PBH Free Fringe/ Berk's nest
DRACULA! MR SWALLOW THE THE INVISIBLE DOT MUSICAL
MR SWALLOW THE MUSICAL The Invisible Dot
FLOOD Various Kieran Underbelly/ Berk's Nest/ Hodgson Live Nation
SUPERVILLAIN Various Kieran Free fringe/ Voodoo rooms Hodgson
KIERAN & JOE: FRIENDS OF Tom Meltzer The Pleasance Baby Grand STEEL
KIERAN & THE JOES: Just the Tonic at the Store TEAMPOWERED
SUCCESS: A SUCCESS STORY Kieran and the Joes Oscar Blustin London Run
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Character Director Company TOO BIG TOO FAIL Kieran and the Joes Oscar Blustin
SUCCESS: A SUCCESS STORY Kieran and the Richard Jones Edinburgh Festival 2010 Jones
WEDDING BELLS Kieran and the Joes Oscar Blustin
Radio
Production Character Director Company NEWSJACK Series 12 Various Producers: Toby Tilling BBC Radio 4 and Matt Stronge Extra
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Christian Sue Roberts Radio 4
DECLINE & FALL Paul Producer: Tracey Neale BBC Radio 4
WHAT THE FUTURE? Various Producer: Victoria Loyd BBC Radio 4
NEWSJACK Series 11 Various Producer: Charlie BBC Radio 4 Perkins
DR THORNE: BARCHESTER Louis Scratchered Susan Roberts BBC Radio 4 CHRONICLES
BABYCAKES Simon Susan Roberts BBC Radio 4
2525 Various Ashley Baker BBC Radio
CABIN PRESSURE SERIES 4 King Maximilian of Producer: Lyndsay BBC Radio 4 EP3 Liechtenstein Fenner
FRESH FROM THE FRINGE Characters Producer: Lyndsay BBC Radio 4 2012 fenner
GILES WEMMBLEY HOGG Carl David Tyler Pozzitive/ BBC GOES OFF SERIES 5 Radio 4
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